With a faculty already numbering more than 40 professors based at 5 academic institutions, the Institute is following an ambitious growth mandate from the Federal government and the Swiss financial services industry. "Events like the Annual Meeting provide an opportunity for finance practitioners to meet our world class faculty," said Professor Rajna Gibson, Swiss Finance Institute Director of Research.

"We are pleased to report vigorous expansion of our research and knowledge transfer activities, an example being this world class assembly to discuss critical issues in banking and finance," explained Professor Jean-Pierre Danthine, Managing Director of the Swiss Finance Institute.

About The Swiss Finance Institute

The Swiss Finance Institute (swissfinanceinstitute.ch) is a private foundation created in 2006 by the banking and the finance community of Switzerland in collaboration with Swiss universities. The Institute aims to advance research activity in finance and to support doctoral research and executive education in the banking and finance industry, as well as organizing interfacing activities between research and the financial services industry.

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